PaddleOCR-VL-1.6
by PaddlePaddle
Compact document VLM for OCR, tables, formulas, charts, seals, and layout parsing
PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.6mixpeek://image_extractor@v1/paddle_ocr_vl_16_v1Overview
PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 is the newest compact document parsing model from PaddlePaddle. It upgrades PaddleOCR-VL 1.5 with region-aware data optimization and progressive post-training, improving weak regions such as tables, rare characters, seals, text spotting, and charts.
On Mixpeek, PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 is a strong OCR and document decomposition candidate when agents need to search scans, forms, charts, invoices, and multilingual documents as structured evidence.
Architecture
0.9B to 1.0B parameter document vision-language model built on the PaddleOCR-VL architecture. Supports task prompts for OCR, table recognition, formula recognition, chart recognition, spotting, and seal recognition. Compatible with the PaddleOCR doc parser pipeline and Transformers custom code.
Mixpeek SDK Integration
// No extractor parameter takes a Hugging Face model id (checked against
// GET /v1/discovery/extractors, which returns 13), so PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 runs
// on your side and the output is upserted through POST
// /v1/namespaces/{namespace_id}/documents/upsert. On Enterprise the other
// path is to upload the weights instead: POST /v1/namespaces/{id}/models
// accepts the huggingface format and a custom plugin loads them.
const res = await fetch(
"https://api.mixpeek.com/v1/namespaces/ns_your_namespace/documents/upsert",
{
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
collection_id: "col_your_collection",
documents: [
{
document_id: "asset-00412",
// The model produces text, so it lands in payload. Give the
// collection a text vector index and embed that text to make it
// searchable rather than only filterable.
payload: { extracted_text: modelOutput, source_key: "archive/2026/asset-00412" },
vectors: { "text-embedding": embeddingOfModelOutput },
},
],
}),
},
);
// Managed alternative, if this exact model is not the requirement:
// universal_extractor@v1 runs google/gemini-embedding-2
// (3072-d) over a bucket, with no inference of your own.Capabilities
- Document parsing across text, tables, formulas, charts, seals, and layout
- English, Chinese, and multilingual document support
- OmniDocBench v1.6 score of 96.33 on the model card
- Compatible migration path from PaddleOCR-VL 1.5
Use Cases on Mixpeek
Benchmarks
| Dataset | Metric | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| OmniDocBench v1.6 | Overall score | 96.33% | PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 model card |
Performance
Use the PaddleOCR doc parser path for page-level parsing
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Specification
Research Paper
PaddleOCR-VL-1.5: Towards a Multi-Task 0.9B VLM for Robust In-the-Wild Document Parsing
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